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Quick Pollinator Plant Identification Guide
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Plants Visited by Wild Bees

Alamo vine (Merremia dissecta)

Barbados cherry (Malpighia emarginata)

Berlandier's fiddlewood (Citharexylum berlandieri)

Berlandier's fiddlewood berries

Blanket flower (Gaillardia pulchella)

Bristly Nama (Nama hispidum)

Cenizo / Texas sage (Leucophyllum frutescens)

Common sunflower (Helianthus annuus)

Common sunflower leaves

Cowpen daisy (Verbesina encelioides)

Crucita (Chromolaena odorata)

Gulf fritillary drinking nectar from crucita

Downy groundcherry (Physalis pubescens)

Erect spiderling (Boerhavia erecta)

Erect spiderling, with green metallic bee

Esperanza (Tecoma sans)

Melitoma marginella chimney bee inside an esperanza blossom

Flame Acanthus / Wright's desert honeysuckle (Anisacanthus quadrifidus var. wrightii)

Frog fruit (Phyla nodiflora)

A typical patch of frog fruit blossoms

Golden dewdrops (Duranta erecta)

California digger bee drinking nectar from golden dewdrops blossoms

Guayacan (Guaiacum angustifolium)

Hierba del marrano (Symphyotrichum subulatum)

Honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa)

Huisache (Vachellia farnesiana)

Low croton (Croton humilis)

Manzanita / Bigberry manzanita (Arctostaphylos glauca)

Mexican alder (Turnera Ulmifolia)

Mexican hat (Ratibida columnifera)

Mexican shrimp plant (Justicia brandegeeana)

Moradilla / Beaked vervain (Grandularia quadrangulata)

Prickly poppy / Golden prickly poppy (Argemone aenea)

Prickly poppy / Red prickly poppy (Argemone sanguinea)

Purple groundcherry (Quincula lobata)

Retama (Parkinsonia aculeata)

Rio Grande abutilon (Abutilon hypoleucum)

Scarletbush (Hamelia patens)

Shrubby blue salvia (Salvia ballotiflora)

Silver-leaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium)